Symbols in ruby might have the same name but are fundamentally different. E.g. in ruby `:foo` and `:foo` are the same thing. In JavaScript, they are quite expli

Symbols in ruby might have the same name but are fundamentally different. E.g. in ruby `:foo` and `:foo` are the same thing. In JavaScript, they are quite explicitly not the same thing. They share little in common (in terms of how they work and what they are designed to do) but the name.